1st time painting

[wampdawg]

i will be redoing my machine within the next couple of weeks and part of that will include painting.

What type of paint should I use or can you recommend?  Any other tips or things i should know?

This will be my 1st time doing anything like this.   

[oscar]

Are you going to be doing the painting yourself?

[wampdawg]

I plan on doing it all myself if I can. 

[RC kid]

There are a lot of things involved with applying paint. I recently bought a book at Barnes and Noble and I found it to be very informative. Having pained some machines and a car, with excellent results, I still learned a lot from the book.

Right now I am using a Valspar single stage enamel and I am getting excellent results with it.

And believe it or not, a coke machine is an excellent first project. It is not so large that you get fatigued while applying the paint and if you mess up and get a run or fish eyes, just step back, let the paint dry, and then sand it down and try again.

[RC kid]

here is another photo

[wampdawg]

I thought about just cleaning it up a little and doing the pedestal base, but I think the woodgrain has to go.  I like the way that halehouse's compact turned out.  I may try and get some inspiration from it as far as a paint scheme goes.

[halehouse]

I thought about just cleaning it up a little and doing the pedestal base, but I think the woodgrain has to go.  I like the way that halehouse's compact turned out.  I may try and get some inspiration from it as far as a paint scheme goes.

My base was done with Rustoleum Hammered Silver. It goes on great for an area like that.

[halehouse]

Here are pics after using the hammered paint.

[wampdawg]

My base was done with Rustoleum Hammered Silver. It goes on great for an area like that.

Is that from a rattle can?

[RC kid]

I used the same paint for the interior of one of the Juniors. I used a rattle can and the results were great. And if you want, it is available for paint gun applications also.